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Tim Flannery
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A new tube-nosed fruit bat from New Guinea, Nyctimene wrightae sp. nov., a re-diagnosis of N. certans and N. cyclotis (Pteropodidae: Chiroptera), and a review of their conservation status
2017 •
Nancy R Irwin
The tube-nosed fruit bat genus Nyctimene comprises 18 species found in the Philippines, Wallacea, Melanesia and the Solomon Islands but species taxonomy has remained problematic. A review of the cyclotis group, consisting of N. cyclotis and N. certans from New Guinea is presented, using morphological and genetic data. Historically, the taxonomy of the cyclotis group has been severely impeded by the lack of illustrations or photographs of the majority of the types. This led authors to differ in their treatment of these species, suggesting that the distinct taxa N. cyclotis and N. certans might be conspecific. Here, N. cyclotis and N. certans are recognized as full species and are re-diagnosed. I describe Nyctimene wrightae sp. nov., a widespread New Guinean species which is tentatively placed in the cyclotis group. These three species and the sympatric N. a. papuanus, of similar body-size, are morphologically distinguished using discriminant function analyses and non-metric characters. An identification key is provided. Species distribution and conservation status are evaluated. The IUCN threat status recommended for each species is: N. wrightae sp. nov. Least Concern; N. certans (known from < 200 specimens) with unknown population size and trends, Data Deficient; and N. cyclotis, known from only two male specimens, Vulnerable. Further research is required on the basic ecology of all of these species, which remains virtually unknown.
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Orchids From Five Districts in Fakfak Regency, West Papua: Diversity and Distribution
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reza saputra
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Ethnobotany of Wopkaimin Pandanus significant Papua New Guinea plant resource
1984 •
David Hyndman
Pandanus is well represented in Papua New Guinea with over 66 species growing from sea level to 3,000 m. The territory of the Wopkaimin, who live at the headwaters of the Ok Tedi in the Star and Hindenburg Mountains, is particularly rich in wild and domesticated species ofPandanus. Detailed analysis of the species in classification, ecology, subsistence, ritual and material culture not only establishesPandanus as a locally significant plant resource but also contributes to the comparative understanding of ethnobiological systems. A close correspondence with botanical taxa of generic and specific rank and an absence of the most inclusive taxon term for plant are 2 cross-culturally important findings substantiated in WopkaiminPandanus taxonomy.
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ECOLOGY OF NON-VOLANT MAMMAL COMMUNITIES ALONG ELEVATIONAL GRADIENT IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA
2021 •
Daniel S Okena
Tropical rainforests are the most species rich ecosystems on Earth including New Guinea. Tropical mountains generate a large part of their species diversity due to different microhabitats they create along levational gradients which facilitate co-existence of species in any given area at local and regional scales. Long elevational gradients within tropical regions with high humidity are among the richest in species composition. Papua New Guinea (PNG) is on the eastern part of New Guinea and is part of Australo-Pacific region that hosts unique mammal composition unlike any other area worldwide. Uniquely, it has all three sub classes of mammals, Marsupials, Monotremes and Placentals. In PNG, mammal communities have been sporadically studied but not in detail and not along extensive elevation gradients using quantitative methods. In this study, I documented in detail non-volant mammal communities along one such elevational gradient in PNG. I used standard mammal sampling methods to assess mammal communities along an elevation gradient in the Huon Peninsula from 200 m to 3700 m with an additional 200 m elevation site from the proposed Wanang Conservation Area in the adjacent lowlands. At each locality 18 elliot box,15 pitfalls, 24 sherman box, 120 snap traps and 12 tomahawk traps were used for 10 consecutive days. Morphometrics of all captured mammals was measured. Spot lighting was also carried out for all 10 nights as well as hunter interviews and bone collections were made. A total of 186 mammals comprising 38 different species were caught during the survey. Additional 15 species were detected through hunter interviews bringing the total detected to 53 species from 9 families. Two middle elevations of 1200 m and 2200 m have the highest abundance and diversity of mammals. This was further confirmed by a positive linear relationship between the number of individuals and species of mammals encountered. Chao 1 test indicates that the species detected were an under estimation of the actual mammal species present. Sorensen Similarity indicate linear increase in the species turnover rate with elevation up to 3000 m. Further, composition along the elevational gradient shows three clusters representing different communities according to the Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA). Based on all the results and especially Chao1 test and species accumulation over sampling nights, I recommend increasing of sampling effort and sampling nights to increase reliability of sampling to detect a good representation of all species that are present in the study area.
Human Ecology
Biotope gradient in a diversified New Guinea subsistence system
1982 •
David Hyndman
The Wopkaimin are a population of hunter-horticulturalists who live near the Upper Fly River in Papua New Guinea. In this paper, ecosystem heterogeneity is related to diversity of strategies in the Wopkaimin subsistence system. Subsistence subsystems of shifting cultivation, silviculture, gathering, pig raising, hunting, fishing, and collecting are associated with 11 biotopes. Biotopes are useful descriptive categories for subsistence ecological research and they are recognized Wopkaimin emic categories, having cognitive and behavioral consequences. The relationship of the Wopkaimin population to other biota in the ecosystem is shown to be related to a very steep biotope gradient.
Environmental Conservation
Interdisciplinary perspectives on historical ecology and environmental policy in Papua New Guinea
2011 •
Colin Filer
SUMMARYPapua New Guinea (PNG) has been the site of a great deal of scientific work, and a fair amount of interdisciplinary debate, within the broad field of historical ecology, which encompasses the study of indigenous society-environment relationships over different time periods. However, this in itself provides no guarantee that scientists engaged in such debate will have a greater influence on the formulation of environmental conservation policies in a state where indigenous decision makers now hold the levers of political power. Five environmental policy paradigms which have emerged in the course of public debate about environmental conservation in PNG over the past half century; the wildlife management, environmental planning, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem assessment, and carbon sequestration paradigms. Each paradigm has framed a distinctive form of interdisciplinary debate about indigenous society-environment relationships within a contemporary political framework. Howe...
